(Closed) How early is too early?

My wedding date is set for July 14…2012. I am DYING to go dress shopping. I do have the venue and the date set, and my calm-cool-collected self wants to sit back and relax a few months, but my crazy-excited self is dying to get into those salons!

My good friend suggested that I wait until at least summer to begin to actually try stuff on, which I think makes perfect sense as I have a July wedding and would do well to know what each dress feels like in this sort of weather, but part of me wants to get going!

I am wondering, have any of you had moderately long engagements who bought their dress early? Should I cool my jets and sit back until summer? What do you gals think?

@micahg: I think you should wait at least a month or so before trying on, but you don’t need to wait too much longer than that. Some salons want you to allow 6-9 months for a dress to come in and be altered. So looking about 1 year in advance isn’t so bad.

I started looking in October for my September wedding and I felt a bit rushed by some salons even though I was allowing 11 months.

@micahg: I’m waiting til the summer, but I know there are a TON of 2012 brides here that have gone shopping already and/or have purchased their dresses.

For me, I will be one of those girls who will buy my dress and then 2 months later find something “better”. I’d like to wait til the summer so I’ve been putting my efforts into other parts of wedding planning in order to keep my mind off of the dress!!